A former student of the legendary Soviet violinist David Oistrakh, Beilina was a highly-regarded musician in the USSR when she emigrated in 1976. “Despite the rave reviews Ms. Beilina received for her debut, her career in the United States did not soar. Like other Soviet musicians who emigrated, she had trouble adjusting to a system where the government was not overseeing every aspect of her career.” She did develop a devoted following as a teacher at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where she also founded the Bachanalia Festival in 1988. — New York Times
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Harry Leslie Smith, Who Survived The Great Depression And WWII And Became A Social Media Star, Has Died At 95
Smith’s following on Twitter and Facebook, in podcasts and in his column for The Guardian, reached well into the hundreds of thousands. “‘Enjoy yourself,’ he often said. ‘It’s later than you think.'”
The Film Star Who Says She’s Not An Actor
The star of Alfonso Cuarón’s new and widely praised Roma had no idea who he was or how the film industry worked when she auditioned in order to please her sister.
We Each Have Our Own Oscar Wilde
“Saint Oscar; Wilde the Irishman; Wilde the wit. The classicist; the socialist; the martyr for gay rights. … So if Oscar’s ultimate genius was to allow us to see ourselves in him, what do we see in 2018? And what is there left still to see in a life that ended prematurely and has been so closely scrutinized?”
Robert Morris, Magpie Minimalist Sculptor, Dead At 87
“[He] was one of a generation of artists who embraced the Minimalist credo, along with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and others. But while his peers continued to work within the genre’s austere limits, Mr. Morris went on to explore an astonishing variety of stylistic approaches, from scatter art, performance and earthworks to paintings and sculptures symbolizing nuclear holocaust. His detractors, noting his tendency to borrow ideas from other artists freely, questioned his originality and authenticity. His supporters saw in him a mind too restlessly alive to the possibilities of art to be confined to any one style.”
Minimalist Robert Morris, 87
Mr. Morris was one of a generation of artists who embraced the Minimalist credo, along with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and others. But while they continued to work within the genre’s austere limits, Mr. Morris went on to explore an astonishing variety of stylistic approaches, from scatter art, performance and earthworks to paintings and sculptures symbolizing nuclear holocaust.
Toulouse-Lautrec Was One Of The Creators Of Modern Celebrity Culture — And One Of Its First Victims
“His strikingly innovative designs turned artistes such as Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert into household names, heralding the birth of celebrity culture as we know it and making a star of their creator in the process.” (And how did he become a casualty of that culture? Absinthe.)
27 Artists Talk About The Best And Worst Advice They Got
People have told me to stop being a perfectionist and make more work, more quickly. This is not bad advice in theory, but it does not work for me.
Statue And Tomb Of Immanuel Kant Vandalized With Pink Paint In Russia
The monuments are in the city of Kaliningrad, Russia’s Baltic Sea coast exclave tucked between Lithuania and Poland. Before World War II, Kaliningrad was the German city of Königsberg, where Kant made his home. Leaflets scattered near the statue denounced the German philosopher as a traitor to Russia, presumably because he is a reminder of Kaliningrad’s German past.
Victoria Donohoe, Longtime Art Critic For Philadelphia Inquirer, Dead At 89
She never learned to drive, never had a TV, never mastered computers or email. Yet for 50 years she covered shows at museums and galleries all over the Philadelphia metro area, filing more than 1,000 articles from 1962 to 2012.